COM FER UN OVNI
A minga chilota is made to move houses; it seems impossible, which is why it feels magical. It's a task that takes several days, where the entire town gathers and collaborates. The strength of oxen, bulls, or even a boat is used to move the house, while the hosts prepare a feast in gratitude. Like in a *minga*, a UFO lands anywhere, bringing with it the materials, tools, and technology to create an unidentified flying object, but just like in the Chilote *mingas*, it requires the help of the whole community.
The imagination surrounding extraterrestrial life and the vastness of our universe offers an open field, an experience detached from the conditions of daily life yet not far from it. To build a UFO, we need to open a gap between the physical or real aspect of a collective construction and the achievable or speculative nature of the common imagination. Can we talk about sightings of unidentified objects in the darkness of rural skies, share paranormal phenomena, ancestral knowledge or techniques, while at the same time trying together to build a life-size unidentified flying object?
By Rosana Sánchez Rufete and Aris Spentas in collaboration with Elena Carvajal, Fran Martínez, Raúl León and Andrea Casino.
With the support of the Alfafara Town Hall and the Institut Valencià de Cultura.
SOMAFICCIÓN
After spending day and night at the Parque de Atracciones de Madrid we got hungry and we organised a merienda.
A work by Fran Martinez and Elena Carvajal
Ligth desing Laura Iturralde
Soundscape Laura Llaneli
External eye Natalia Ferlandes and Ángela Millano
With the support of Teatro Pradillo, Madrid. NONONON Lab, Vigo. L'Estruch, Sabadell. La Poderosa Barcelona
Lecturing; As Body in time of logic
Lecturing; As Body in time of logic is a performative lecture that presents a mix of physical and vocal proposals as solution for the 'blank-out' experience. Their goal is to transform this seemingly tragic experience into a gift and skill that holds various other hidden suggestions.
Project in collaboration with Gitte Hendrikx
Performing at: Encuentros Concentrados festival, Sevilla (ES) 17-19.01.2020
https://www.encuentrosconcentrados.com/lecturing
Residency:
BUDA, Kortrijk. 21.02.2020 - 23.02.2020
Highlander I : « Salut c’est moi » mais en fait c’était pas lui
Project in collaboration with Antoine Carbone and LOTO
Ils ont trouvé un tas de gravats. Les restes d’une société légère. Depuis et pour l’instant, ils absorbent exclusivement du vin et des cacahuètes
LOTO- Bruxelles 07.12.2019
Être Ciel
Être Ciel is an installation-performance where spectators and dancers evolvesimultaneously in space to compose a landscape common choreographic. Everyspectator is invited to activate a song of bird from his smartphone by connectingon an internet platform. Every phone becomes an autonomous sound source thatthe viewer spatializes where he chooses to take square. The songs interact witheach other in space, overlap, intersect where stop as they could do it in the naturalstate. Each bird corresponds to a dancer and at each song, a choreographicsequence, developed upstream by the dancers themselves. At dusk, the awakeningof the songs allows the dance to exist and movements, to dialogue and tomigrate on the bodies to become at times, a common body. By putting resourcesinto play we have momentarily, we are looking for the conditions of an ecosystemand an ecology specific to the fields of choreography. The presence of everyonebecomes necessary in the construction and maintenance of the room, thanks towhich language can travel on the bodies he passes through.
Created By Maite Alvarez and Marion Gassion. Co-creation and performance: Eliane Berstchi, Camille Meyer, Leen Van Dommelen Estelle Czernichowski, Camille Dejean, Sophie Farza, Juliette Otter, Elena Carvajal.
Performed at:
Centrale for contemporary Arts, Bruxelles 27.06.2018
Festival couraunts d´airs, Bruxelles 24-28.04.2019
Residency:
Tour à Plomb, Bruxelles 08-09-10.04.2019
La Raffinerie-Charleroi Danse, Bruxelles 17--28.02.2020
Is the cat in the radiator
Is the cat in the radiator ? invites the spectator to be part of the famous novel Nice Prime written by Cara de Saint Far and the ghost of Jonathan César d'Arial.
Performance written and directed by Laura Tinard
Performers : Elena Carvajal, Rafael Elders, Laura Elias, Corentin Llanto, Laura Tinard.
Fesival Isac, Tour a Plomb, 2019
I’l jst dn’ot’ knoaw whi’r thaye r
“ I’l jst dn’ot’ knoaw whi’r thaye r ” is a performative lecture that explores a part of her book ‘Yung Hyaline’. Together with dancer Elena Carvajal she examines how the unidentifiable plays with two bodies and one mind.
Gitte Hendrikx in collaboration with ElenaCarvajal
30 minutes
Performed at: Vooruit, Gent (BE) June 2019